Developing Epistemes in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children

This research paper aims to examine a study on language struggles that leads to epistemic violence. It reflects on Rushdie’s treatment of society during post-colonial India respectively and looks at applying the theory of cultural altercations post colonizers. It also focuses on the similarities that these colonies have encumbered the mindsets of the colonized. Writer’s literary texts are analysed within the parameters of these issues. “Decolonization, as Postcolonial studies, is a paradigm shift from colonial dominance to the freedom of natives, from subordination to co-ordination, from suppression to expression, from imposition of language and culture to one's own choice, from surrogate Englishman to indigenous man, from forced civilization to ethnic culture, from autocracy and dictatorship to democracy, from domineering politics to the politics of human welfare, from the exercise of the castration of psyche to re-gaining of manhood and many other things[1].” Salman Rushdie is criticised by society for promoting silence and the invisibility of women and the emergence of a gender lens. In fact, he attempts to represent how women feel distorted and alienated within their culture and tries to bring a fair justification for contemporary women and enable them to see a world without restricted freedom. [1] https://www.academia.edu/35447784/Decolonizing_the_Indian_Theatr